I'm talking, of course, about guns.

It seems Schumer thinks Trump should totally go against everything he said on the subject during the campaign and push for gun control.

Less than three weeks before inauguration day, some Democrat leaders in Congress are pressuring incoming President Donald Trump to support some of their gun control schemes.

According to an Associated Press report, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, has accused Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of blocking meaningful action on gun violence.

“This is the moment for the president to do something different and courageous,” Schumer told the AP.

Of course, one person’s “something courageous” is another person’s infringement on Second Amendment rights. Stopping such infringements is one of the primary reasons both President Trump and Sen. McConnell were elected to their respective offices.

According to the report, Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently informed President Trump that any gun control proposal must include the House-passed bill to expand background checks. They argue that if that provision is not included, it will create dangerous loopholes.

Certainly, most gun owners realize that purported “universal” background checks are merely a method to ban private gun sales and establish a de facto gun registry—both of which directly infringe on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

The AP also reported that President Trump intends to announce something regarding gun control to the American public in the coming week, as stated by White House spokesman Hogan Gidley.

Sen. Mitch McConnell has signaled his willingness to consider gun control.

However, what bugs me here is Schumer's claim that passing gun control would be "courageous."

Certainly, passing legislation that one figures is necessary even if it's unpopular could be considered courageous, but people like Schumer routinely claim that most people, even most Republicans, favor gun control. How is passing something supposedly so popular "courageous" in any way?

Of course, I find it amusing that Schumer and Nancy Pelosi think they can dictate what must be included in any gun control bill when we know good and well that Democrats aren't going to vote against anything of the sort. Sure, they might figure universal background checks are essential, but if it's not included, they'll gladly take what they can get.

My hope, though, is that this announcement is little more than telling Democrats to pound sand.

We didn't elect Trump so we could actually get more gun control. If we'd wanted that, Kamala Harris was quite ready to pass all of that and more. 

No, we voted for him so we could oppose such measures.

I'm troubled by the idea that Trump is considering anything of the sort.

However, I'm also bothered that anyone who has been in office as long as Schumer has can actually be so self-deluded as to think that doing something they claim is popular is really a courageous act.

Then again, there's reason to believe he knows it's not nearly as popular as he and his friends have claimed. Especially with Republicans.

So, he's trying to somehow trick Trump into doing what Kamala Harris couldn't get elected to do. Let's hope that Trump can see through this sort of nonsense and hold firm in his commitment to the Second Amendment. God knows the last thing we need is another gun-grabber-in-chief. If we'd wanted that, we could have just kept POTATUS in office.